Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet leads with 9.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 379.5K more tokens in context window than GPT-3.5 Turbo. GPT-3.5 Turbo is $16.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
11 months newer

GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Sonnet

GPT-3.5 Turbo
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Sonnet

GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Sonnet

GPT-3.5 Turbo

Claude 3 Sonnet

GPT-3.5 Turbo

GPT-3.5 Turbo
Azure
OpenAI